Free PHP Tutorials
Practical PHP Programming
This is an unpublished book on PHP. This book assumes no PHP programming skill at all - you will be taught from scratch in that respect. It appears to be quite comprehensive and can be navigated online in tutorial fashion, so it serves as an online php book or php tutorial.
Tizag.com's PHP Tutorial
The goal of this tutorial is to teach you the basics of PHP so that you can customize PHP scripts that you download, so that they better fit your needs; begin to understand the working model of PHP, so you may begin to design your own PHP projects; and give you a solid base in PHP, so as to make you more valuable in the eyes of future employers.
PHP Tutorial
This site has a php tutorial that has short descriptions of the basics as well as working with files, sending email with php, and working with files and directories.
An Introduction to PHP
A short PHP tutorial that introduces the basics of the language including variable, operators, server variables, http headers, setting cookies, includes and working with form data.
Introductory Tutorial
Introduction to the basics at PHP.net. A short simple tutorial that only deals with dynamic webpage creation with PHP.
PHP Tutorial
A short php tutorial that introduces the basics of the language including variables, constructs, mail with php, and working with forms.
W3Schools PHP Tutorial
Another fine tutorial from the folks at W3Schools including an introduction to PHP, installations, syntax, operators, conditionals, looping, functions, forms, cookies, inlcudes, date formats, and odbc database connections.
Beginners PHP
On this site you will find a variety of resources for php including tutorials, sample code, downloads, sample chapters from books and links to other php sites.
phpfreaks.com
phpfreaks.com has two sections of tutorials: their own and user submitted. Their own php tutorials tend to address more advanced php topics like using php sockets, creating php/mysql membership systems, using php sessions and a host of other php topics including some basic ones like using php variables and arrays in php. The user section has links to offsite tutorials covering many topics.
Zend.com PHP Tutorials
A large list of PHP tutorials divided into beginner and advanced categories and covering many PHP topics.
Webmonkey's PHP Tutorials
Many PHP topics are covered here including installation, using MySQL with PHP, generating images on the fly, encryption, using oracle with PHP and more.
PHP and Oracle
How to use built in PHP functions to communicate with an Oracle database
Classes and PHP
Learn to develop resusable objects.
PHP Guestbook
An example PHP guestbook is examined in this PHP tutorial.
Send Mail in PHP
This example shows how to send an email message to someone in PHP.
Sending MIME email in PHP
Tired of sending those drab textual notifications and newsletters to your friend and clients? Ever wanted to send attachments and/or HTML embedded email.
Send HTML Email
How to send an HTML email message from a PHP script.
PHP/MySQL Tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to use PHP and the MySQL database to store information on the web and include it into your website
Creating a Mail Form with PHP and Flash
Create a contact form within Flash and link it to PHP.
Binary Data + MySQL + PHP
If you want to store binary data like images and html files directly in your MySQL database, this column is for you!
Introduction to PHP Sessions
A 9-page php session management tutorial. This tutorial has a complete set of source code scripts in zip format you can download on the last page.